{"id":17,"date":"2020-11-10T01:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-12-10T20:12:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:12:33","slug":"the-performer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/the-performer\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PERFORMER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By: Aala Abdullahi<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zennie Trieu is a 25-year-old actor, writer and director living in New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She\u2019s one of the thousands of New Yorkers that work in the performing arts, an industry that has been decimated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Zennie-2.gif\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early this fall, it was announced that Broadway and New York City\u2019s performing arts world would remain closed until the end of May 2021. This is major news, considering over 97,000 people rely on Broadway to make a living.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a result, creatives are turning to Zoom and other video conferencing apps to hold performances. As she prepares for one of the biggest jobs of her career so far\u2014a virtual salon, titled \u201cMyth Me in Manhattan\u201d that features three of her plays\u2014Zennie walks us through her process and why her work means so much to her at a time when there is so much uncertainty.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE PERFORMER by NYU JOURNALISM\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F944163706&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Zennie-Screenshot.png\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"text-header-xs\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-210 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/aala-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/aala-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/aala-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/aala.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/> <em class=\"margin-sm margin-none font-weight-regular\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Aala Abdullahi is a multimedia producer with over five years experience in newsroom innovation. She specializes in solutions-oriented, interactive storytelling.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Aala Abdullahi Zennie Trieu is a 25-year-old actor, writer and director living in New York City. She\u2019s one of the thousands of New Yorkers that work in the performing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/workers2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}